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 Alki UCC Weekly Messenger January 12, 2018
This Sunday, January 14
After the Magi story on January 6, the next Sunday of Epiphany always focuses on the baptism of Jesus.
 
It’ a day to enter into the mystery and wonder of baptism, that once-in- a-lifetime event which takes a whole lifetime to understand and explore. It’s also a perfect day for a baptism, and this Sunday we’ll celebrate the baptism of Reese Hiroji Delaney-Ogasawara, followed by a time in the service to come to the font for a blessing and remember our own baptisms.
From the Board Chair
For those members of our church family who were unable to attend the congregational meeting in December, I would like to provide a short report.
 
We passed a revised budget that allowed for a 40,000 dollar deficit to be reassessed after our fundraiser. We also made a request for additional giving, either through a pledge increase or one-or-more time gifts of additional money.
 
So far, the results of this request have been positive and in some cases downright heartwarming. As your chair, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for this generosity. Thank you to those who have stepped up.
 
In our revised budget plan we assumed that our fundraiser would have the same level of success as last year, and as our congregation has accepted the budget challenge, we really need at least one hundred ten participants to attend the Mardi Gras gala. So far, 25 have signed up.
 
Please call your friends and come to the gala! Besides helping our church you will receive the added benefit of a meal and a good time.
 
Sincerely,
Rod Peeler
Board Chair
Mardi Gras Gala Update
The Mardi Gras Gala is just around the corner. It’ll be as much fun as you can have in February without actually leaving town, so don’t miss out!
 
This Sunday, our MGG team will be set up during coffee hour if you would like help signing up and buying tickets. You can also get a nifty Mardi Gras mask! Or visit alkiucc.org to register at any time.
 
Your Mardi Gras Gala Team, 

Kathy Herigstad     Charlie Hinckley     Julia Peeler

(206) 769-4165      (206) 718-2574       (206) 595-2059

 
Mardi Gras Gala
A Benefit for Alki UCC

Saturday, February 10 at 5:30 pm
The Hall at Fauntleroy
Join the Party!

Visit to the Redmond Mosque
(Muslim Association of Puget Sound)
Sunday, January 21, 3:00 to 6:00 pm
 
So far we’ve got 17 folks from Alki UCC signed up for the mosque tour, dinner and discussion. Hosted by the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS), the event is free and includes a short overview and Q&A session with Annelah Afzali (Executive Director of the American Muslim Empowerment Network) and a Middle Eastern supper. Members of Alki, Admiral and Fauntleroy UCC will be attending together.

Please sign up this Sunday so we can let them know how many to plan for. We’ll have a sign-up sheet at church, or just let Pastor Diane know by Tuesday, January 16.
 
If you want to carpool, we’ll depart from Alki UCC at 2:15 pm on January 21. If you want to go on your own, meet at the Mosque: 17550 NE 67th Ct, Redmond, WA 98052
Holiday Volunteers Make a Difference
Folks from Alki UCC were front and center at two volunteer events over the holidays at Camp Second Chance. On December 15, about a dozen of us turned out for a work party to help construct "super tents" for residents living in less than adequate camping tents. These super tents stand over six feet high, are fully insulted and are quite strong.
 
We built plywood platforms to place them on, insulted the tents, and completed the full construction of seven super tents. That night, seven fortunate campers moved out of their cold tents and into the warm super tents, just in time as temperatures were dropping dramatically!
 
Our second volunteer event was planned for Christmas morning, but was postponed a day because of the snow. Many volunteers from both Alki UCC and KHN brought bountiful platters of food: hot eggs, quiche, bacon, sausages, and potatoes; fresh baked cinnamon rolls and pastries; hot coffee and hot chocolate. Kathy Herigstad was so inspired and moved by the campers, that she went out and purchased new sleeping bags for many of them!!
 
Thanks to everyone who stepped up at Camp Second Chance and to the members of Berea Circle (pictured at left) who got together for a special work party to assemble much-appreciated gift bags for Second Chance residents.
 
Last week, Berea Circle met to produce toiletry kits, filling about seven grocery bags! Members brought what items they had accumulated, some bought additional things, and at least one person (Patty Magnuson) collected a huge amount of things thanks to her appeal on social media and then her willingness to drive around West Seattle to pick everything up! People were very generous.
 
Thank you everyone for your interest, compassion and energy for helping others! Stay tuned for future opportunities.
— Cinda Stenger (Outreach) & Vicky Smith (Berea Circle)
Seattle Women's March 2.0
Saturday, January 20 • 10:00 am
Cal Anderson Park
1635 – 11th Avenue, Seattle
Grounded in the nonviolent ideology of the Civil Rights movement, last year's Women’s March was the largest coordinated protest in U.S. history and one of the largest in world history.
 
People of all backgrounds — women and men and gender nonconforming people, young and old, of diverse faiths, differently abled, immigrants and indigenous — came together, 5 million strong, on all seven continents of the world. We were answering a call to show up and be counted as those who believe in a world that is equitable, tolerant, just and safe for all, one in which the human rights and dignity of each person is protected and our planet is safe from destruction
 
Many people thought it was the peak moment of the resistance. But it wasn’t — It was just the beginning.
 
The weekend of January 20-21, we will gather again in Seattle and in cities and towns across the country. Because our resistance is stronger than ever. Join us!
 
Saturday's March will be followed by a Day of Action with workshops and presentations throughout the Seattle area. More info here
Call for Volunteers!
DESC "Adopt an Apartment Day" Saturday, February 17
Thanks to your generosity, the Outreach team has funds to "adopt" three apartments in the Estelle, a newly-built 91-unit affordable housing complex on Rainier Avenue in Southeast Seattle. The Estelle is a project of DESC, the Downtown Emergency Service Center, a Settle nonprofit providing emergency shelter and survival services for people living in a state of chronic homelessness.
 
Now we need shoppers to purchase household goods and furnishings in time for the first Estelle residents to move in on "Adopt an Apartment Day," set for Saturday, February 17. Volunteers are also needed that day to help set up basic furniture/furnishings and then celebrate as this wonderful new facility becomes HOME for 91 vulnerable, formerly homeless adults!
 
Contact Cinda Stenger with questions or to sign up.
 
The Estelle project epitomizes DESC's reputation as a national leader in implementing innovative, cost-effective strategies that end homelessness. The complex will house a first of its kind partnership with Harborview Medical Center to create an innovative housing program that brings together the advantages of both permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people and high quality healthcare services on-site.
 
Approximately 15 units will be allocated for people exiting the hospital with healthcare needs who can’t be served in conventional residential care systems. This will also make on-site healthcare services available to all residents in the building.
In Our Circle of Prayer
In Our Prayers:
Sallie Neillie, having skin graft surgery on her leg this coming Tuesday (a follow up to the skin cancer surgery she had in December).
 
Don Peterson, who will not be having surgery, but continues to live with a lot of pain due to a fall a couple of months ago.
 
For those grieving the recent death of a loved one:
Jeff Jolly & family, Marshan & Darrell Goodwin-Moultry, Gary Gesellchen, Charley Rosenberry, Lisa Doepken and her grandson's family, the family of Mary Mason, Russ Thornock, Doris Colbert, Jason Huynh, Trish Dodds, Cynthia Jolly, Julia Chase, Scott Mathews, Maria Brodahl

Recent hospitalization, illness and other concerns:
Sue Morris, Mike Crowley, Linda Pillo, Sallie Neillie, Patty Magnuson’s brother, Joe Aprile, Lisa Burke, Elise Piraino, Sallie Neillie, Joe Mitter, Dan Kennedy's brother, Dayle Banks, Lesa Henry, Shelley Webster

Persons with ongoing needs: Jan Cochran, John Chowning, Eric Erickson

For home bound members/friends of Alki UCCRuth Okada, Doris Colbert 
 
Wider World:  All those affected by the devastating California mudslides and wildfires; victims and survivors of extremist violence around the world; victims and survivors of the devastation in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, the Caribbean, India and Bangladesh; prayers for fewer guns and for all victims of gun violence; the migrants seeking refuge around the world, and for those who are trying to help and serve them. The rest of the missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, who remain in our hearts as long as they remain missing. The hungry and homeless, the ill and the addicted, the lost and the lonely; the unemployed; US officials and troops serving abroad.  
Alki UCC Website

 
 
 
 
 
Check for church news and calendar updates at www.alkiucc.org.
The Week Ahead
Choir Workshop
  Saturday at 10:00 am
  Verona Ryan Home
Choir Rehearsal
 Sunday at 9:00 am
Worship
  & Church School
  Sunday at 10:00 am
Board of Directors
 Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Choir Rehearsal
 Tuesday at 7:00 pm
Choir Workshop 
Tomorrow
Saturday, January 13
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Verona Ryan's home
(4301 SW Donald St).
 
 
Bring some food to share for lunch. New singers are welcome and encouraged to join us.
 
Choir Dinner: 4:00 to 6:00 pm at Ephesus Restaurant (5245 California Ave SW). We’ve reserved the upstairs room just for our group.
 
Please RSVP to Mary Douglass if you plan to attend the dinner. Spouses and children are welcome.
 
Food is served family style and will cost about $25 per person, so please bring cash to ease the bill paying process!
"Honoring Choices NW" Class on Advance Care Planning at Alki UCC
Sunday, January 28
11:30 am
Pastor Amy Hitchens and Emily Hitchens, RN, MN, EdD will lead an informative session on advanced directives, advance care planning and thinking ahead about what your wishes are if some unexpected health event or accident occurs.
 
Class attendance is limited to 12, so please RSVP with Emily Hitchens or the Church Office.
 
 
Both Amy and Emily are trained facilitators for Honoring Choices, which is sponsored by the Washington State Hospital Association and the Washington State Medical Association.
 
The session offers you increased knowledge about healthcare decision making, an opportunity to review or update your advanced directive, and definitions on who is qualified to be your health care power of attorney in the event you cannot make decisions for yourself. There will also be a conversation about CPR and the POLST form. The cost is $5.00 for the newly updated materials/forms.
 
There will be an opportunity later to witness each other’s forms once they are filled out, i.e. Washington State Law now states that all health care advanced directives and power of attorney forms need to be either notarized or witnessed by non-family members.
"I Am Not Your Negro" Public Screening & Discussion
Tomorrow
Saturday, January 13
10:00 am to 3:00 pm 
First Baptist Church
1111 Harvard Ave


 
Based on the unfinished writings of James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro explores concepts of blackness in America through the lens of the assassinations of Malcolm X, Dr. King and Medgar Evers. The post-movie conversation will be led by Jane Elliott, the creator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise.
UCC Conference Men's Retreat 
Registration is now open for the PNC-UCC Men's Retreat at Pilgrim Firs, February 2-4, 2018 (Silent Day is Thursday, Feb 1)
 
To register at pncucc.org, first click on Pilgrim Firs, then on "Events" in the top banner. Scroll down to the Men's Retreat and choose either the Silent Day and Weekend, or the Weekend by itself. Cost is $185 and $135, respectively. Scholarship help is available.
 
Poor People's Campaign
Seattle Mass Meeting
Thursday, January 18 at 6:30 pm
Plymouth Congregational Church
Join us for the first official Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Meeting of 2018!
This is one of several meetings taking place over the next few months in the King County area as we discuss the strategic direction of the WA-Poor People's Campaign.
 
Please invite others in your networks to be a part of this important historical movement to lead our state in the fight against poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, and the war economy!
Alki UCC Board of Directors
2017-2018 
Rod Peeler, Chair
Shannon Peterson,
  Vice Chair
Jason Huynh,
  Secretary
Susan Fairo
Emily Hitchens
Sandra Johnson
Dan Kennedy
Patty Magnuson

Scott Mathews
Ex Officio:
(Voice but no vote)

Kristin Michael,

  Business Manager
Diane Darling, Pastor

Supporting Alki UCC:
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